PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Confirmation Bias, Social Neuroscience, Institutional Review Board
13 Sep 2018
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Archival analysis researcher ehamines accumulated documents of a culture confounds. Any uncontrolled factor(s) that could alter your research results o eh. Failure to randomly assign subjects to condition, differences in comfort of lab across conditions, ehperimenters behave differently across conditions confounds occur when uncontrolled factor(s) co- vary with the iv: eh. Effects of aging on reading speed with light level as a confound. Old subjects in a dim lab, young in bright lab. If young subjects read faster, don"t know if it"s due to age or lighting. Data collected in time when polite people didn"t talk about seh, especially if irregular. People going to ehperimenter"s class were already irregular because they were willing to do this. Found about 10% of men interviewed were gay. Possible that people were ehcited to talk to someone who wouldn"t judge their sehuality. May not be telling the truth or behaving naturally if want to look good.
